Best Earthen Poems
Golden soft was the light that swiftly flew,
As whistling rain pelted majestic oaks
And the soaked birds began to cry for you
As Nature silently wrapped up its cloaks
Thirsty for coming dawn, so bold and new.
Silver Maples fluttering in the wind,
Where the fast sleeping rabbits hid away
All beautiful, we wish to never end
With brightened colors, every joyful day
As Nature's beauty flows out to transcend.
As sky greets the land like a golden thread,
I cry for my heart is truly Broken.
Muted memories from the day we wed.
The future was promised by words spoken.
Your pure soul taken from our earthen bed!
Bird like angels transport you to the sky.
Weeping willows now join in my sorrow.
Unable to give me an answer why.
Today is lost, I long for tomorrow.
There within the Heavens we will both fly!
By: Robert Lindley & Richard Lamoureux
Categories:
earthen, desire, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Across Earthen Sky And Mystical Realms
And where was the light of truth and spirit?
Racing hot, chariots wheels in fires.
The Light sublime, flees when one but nears it
its glowing path vanished as it retires.
Across earthen sky and mystical realms
gold eagle flies into kingdoms not born.
Such breath of awe, rebels and overwhelms
the soul that finds its deep solitude torn.
Did Greek Gods dare warn of man's futile quests
with deceptive hearts, minds loaded with greed
If in a pure giving heart one invests,
comes forth the fruits of a heavenly seed.
Fruits of paradise, grow in thoughts sublime
man's quest should be more than seeking more time.
R. J. Lindley,
Dec 11th, 1977
Note: Excuse me for rarely posting new poems. I find it so hard to write much with my mother in such a serious condition ....
Once I could easily write ten poems a day but now for weeks its a hard struggle to even write one..
Even my one a day poems for my darling wife have suffered lapses.
As has my commenting to all my friends and fellow poets here.
Special apology to my great friends the Duggans as my lapses are
not from laziness but from melancholy, a progressing forgetfulness(ALZ) and blues.
Categories:
earthen, art, beauty, creation, inspirational,
Form:
Sonnet
The late morning light glazes the lake,
pierces, with stems and stalks of lily and reed.
Shadows freeze like lashes upon the limpid surface
of still water fracturing the sky-blue to black.
Iris of earthen orb, brush back the unruly screen of vision,
rub the cinders from night's lingering trace,
awake from the mire of silted dream.
Let the wind, your laggard lover,
rise a frolicking and remove each lash
with the gentle touch of fingertip.
Categories:
earthen, allegory, imagination, love, nature
Form:
Free verse
Intoxicate me with thy soul food
Forlorn a wondering heart
Of subtle substance
Hung on a tree trunk
My jar of wit is overflowing
Across the seven Earth I know of
Touching them to life
Now the sacred pipes are let loose
To tap like never before
From the enormous tree trunk
The shanty town of my utmost being
Like beehive on their newfound prey
Gasping for breath becomes my lot
My destiny, our destiny
Categories:
earthen, life, mystery, passion, tree,
Form:
The Earthen Vessel
Why the Lord has chosen earthen vessels
is still a mystery to me,
the Glory of the Lord descending upon them
all because of the work on Calvary.
But an earthen pot is so unstable
till His Spirit abides within,
able to strengthen us because of our weakness
and help us to overcome every sin.
For I know that in my earthly vessel
alone, I cannot stand,
but learning to call on my Father’s help in time of need
He’s always near to give me a helping hand.
And sometimes, these vessels of ours
do not do the things that we ought,
but remembering He is the Great Potter
truly satisfies this little pot.
Now Lord, help this vessel to be one of honor
so on it Your Glory may fill,
that I can stand up for Jesus’ sake
and promptly answer Your sweet call.
Written by Marilyn S. Jennings
1994
Categories:
earthen, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
The tones being played reminiscent of the good old days
When as boys we used to play
O how I miss those days when the grass was green and
Everything we did we overcame
This earth will never be the same
We've polluted it to the point of utter disgrace
Have we no shame no shame
As I wipe the tears from my face
What will our children do when they reach a proper age
Farm the fields for dust and their children again and again simply insane
We had our time to make a stand for change
I'll close my journal now as the words drift off the page
Back to this world that we made.
Categories:
earthen, earth day, meaningful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
As This Nature Child Wades Clear Earthen Streams
On her island, precious paradise thrives
Trees hang, laden with large delicious fruit
Bees with no sting, fill up huge honey hives
Nightly stars seen falling, romance they shoot
There majestic songbirds sing her to sleep
Cool breeze flowing across her soft silk bed
Dreams visit with joy and peace truly deep
Her guarding angels flying overhead.
Every dawn perfect weather brings sunshine
Gentle waves wash upon shore, sand and beach
She strolling, finding her life well and fine
All her treasures found within easy reach.
Paradise, exists in her hopeful dreams.
As this Nature child wades clear earthen streams.
R. J. Lindley
August 10th, 1992
( From my private journal)
Categories:
earthen, art, child, creation, happy,
Form:
Sonnet
From clay came a human form
Given the breath of the Almighty
Not formed of precious stones
as Lucifer
To remove the pride of adornment
in Lucifer
To install humility in clay fashioned
in Adam
And still enclose the Godhead
in Adam
From clay Divinity sowed the seed
of the SuperNatural
That the earthen vessel will glory
in the Divine
So that man's dependence will not be
in themselves
As we seek to return the glory to Him
We are adorned with His nature
. For His purpose
When man is done doing His will, then shall
. He retrieve His Spirit
. Given to man for a lease
And clay shall return to clay, then man's
Soul shall return
To the dwelling of the Almighty
Categories:
earthen, christian, devotion, easter, faith,
Form:
Free verse
earthen filament
sign encompasses weak string
tied to cord, weathered
Russell Sivey
Categories:
earthen, life,
Form:
Haiku
Earthen
~~~~~~~
Taken from itself
Returned as a thing anew
Concrete, rock, tarmac
Categories:
earthen, nature
Form:
Haiku
Carving a place into your earth
Calling it our own
We boast self-reliance
Yet search for you upon earthly faces
Comparing their eyes to your sea, your stars, your sky
Desiring for your earth to kiss us back
To hold us gently
Until we fall heavily
Into your arms
Categories:
earthen, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
On a rainy day, I float like a spider in an earthen city,
the glue of the body is my own land,
who also can I blame?
Insane to find the demonic catastrophe suppressed,
folded in the gaps of the body of the beauty!
The lamp post, like the naked thighs of the sun,
gives a shameless handshake in the afternoon,
the delight of an imaginary woman!
Being a monk, I am being oxidized by my own digestive juice, who else can I blame? So many disobedient hormones born in your own body!
The great art of walking up the night of a women's civilization;
exquisite craftsmanship of cosmic architects,
their banners have been put up for auction,
prices are rising like crazy horses in the stock market!
Men cannot move the peacock's tail to calculate the simple figure!
Who do I blame?
Fastinstru with Neanderthals,
people are now all hybrid!
The youth of a half-eaten man submerged in water,
burns in cheap cigarettes and
eats adulterated poisonous food,
like bait fish guardian.
Seeing the fertile love of Goddesses Aphreter, the fun-filled cum, when it smells like rotten jack fruit, I understand that it is my own body --prowess beast,
every time I count the grains, the poisonous bite is accumulating in my jaw!
Categories:
earthen, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
EARTHEN VESSEL
I was just an earthen vessel
broken long ago.
I sat among the thistle
clinging to my woe.
'Til one day a man named Jesus
released me from my gloom.
I was just an earthen vessel,
sitting alone within my tomb.
The instant that He touched me
I was no longer the same.
He filled me with living water
and I was no longer maimed.
He filled me with His love,
and I was instantly changed;
with His touch that healed ten thousand
the Master I regained.
Janet Marie Bingham
Categories:
earthen, best friend, blessing, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
Little earthen quakes
Rumblings of the soul
Missives made of letters
Placed in ordered rows
Tales of ancient ruins
Never told before –
Little earthen quakes
Restless on the page
Telling little tales
Giving it away –
Aftershock upheavals
Pain, that trembles, grows
For the pen that wrote them
Little did it know
Little earthen tremors
Never letting go –
Categories:
earthen, earth, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Quietly, I walked along the pine needled path
as a pair of larks serenaded the morning sky.
They trilled from branches high in the trees
until I sneezed from pollen flying on the breeze.
I'd beg their pardon, saying I meant no harm
but quickly they flew away, filled with alarm.
A tear on my cheek for the havoc I'd wreaked
as I knelt 'neath the shade of an ancient oak,
bowed my head so as not to provoke its ire.
I felt the sun on my nape, the heat of its fire
daring not to move from it and into the shade.
I stayed beneath the bowing limbs, praying
as summer's stifling wind had them swaying...
until sweat ran in rivulets down my back.
It was not humility for nature that I lacked,
for I held great reverence for earthen things,
mosquito hawk wings, wildflowers,
and the trees that tower over me.
My legs were numb as I succumbed to pain
and sat upon that needle strewn path
until a gentle afternoon rain fell from the clouds.
Until the larks returned to take a flutter wings bath
in puddles. I managed not to laugh aloud
and disturb their forested refuge once again.
I sat quite still, and they began to trill in song,
glancing at me now and again with forgiving eyes.
Or perhaps it was a look to criticize my presence.
Categories:
earthen, bird, nature,
Form:
Rhyme